package net.sourceforge.jsocks;

/**
 * The Authentication interface provides for performing method specific
 * authentication for SOCKS5 connections.
 */
public interface Authentication {
	/**
	 * This method is called when SOCKS5 server have selected a particular
	 * authentication method, for whch an implementaion have been registered.
	 * 
	 * <p>
	 * This method should return an array {inputstream,outputstream
	 * [,UDPEncapsulation]}. The reason for that is that SOCKS5 protocol allows
	 * to have method specific encapsulation of data on the socket for purposes
	 * of integrity or security. And this encapsulation should be performed by
	 * those streams returned from the method. It is also possible to
	 * encapsulate datagrams. If authentication method supports such
	 * encapsulation an instance of the UDPEncapsulation interface should be
	 * returned as third element of the array, otherwise either null should be
	 * returned as third element, or array should contain only 2 elements.
	 * 
	 * @param methodId
	 *            Authentication method selected by the server.
	 * @param proxySocket
	 *            Socket used to conect to the proxy.
	 * @return Two or three element array containing Input/Output streams which
	 *         should be used on this connection. Third argument is optional and
	 *         should contain an instance of UDPEncapsulation. It should be
	 *         provided if the authentication method used requires any
	 *         encapsulation to be done on the datagrams.
	 */
	Object[] doSocksAuthentication(int methodId, java.net.Socket proxySocket)
			throws java.io.IOException;
}
